STILL MORE rsc press clippings

[angevin2]

Via lite_bright.

From the Observer:

It's one of the main thrusts of Michael Boyd's productions of these Histories, that monarchy is shackled to fear: no sooner does someone gain the crown than he begins to lose it. The RSC's Courtyard is full of reproachful ghosts and echoes. A bloodied murder victim walks through the action at the beginning of Richard II.

Comments

[queeniefox]

I am indignant over that second quote, indignant I say!

Don't put your Richard II squee down, you're the person who made me like the thing!

Also: I'm glad other people do this 'getting obsessed over productions I'm not even going to see' thing. I've got all these photos saved from the Globe's all male Anthony and Cleopatra.

[queeniefox]

And I should add that last part is not just because I'm perving over men in skirts.

[angevin2]

But men in skirts are hot. :D

I am working on the whole self-consciousness-about-squee thing I sometimes do, because hey, being completely obsessed with Richard II is my Thing, and I got a dissertation out of it and it is going to be a fabulous dissertation, so I should just let my freak flag fly. I mean, after all, Andrew Gurr says that study of the play "has consumed quite a few well-spent scholarly lifetimes." So yay for spreading the Ricardian love (which sounds filthy, but I am sure Richard would approve).

And I am glad people besides me obsess about productions they're not going to see, too! I mean, why not? It is great to know what people are doing with plays, and, you know, academically useful and stuff.

(I am hearing talk of a US tour, so it is possible that I may get to see this someday, but it won't be for a while, and I am all "Yay press clippings!")

[kerrypolka]

This is very fun, because next week I get to go to Stratford for "Twelfth Night", in November "Henry V", and in February (and hopefully March as well) hit the whole histories cycle top-to-bottom.

...

NEENER NEENER NEENER NEENER!

I'll LJ at length about anything you want to hear about. :)

[angevin2]

Anything and everything!

Also, BITE ME.

[kerrypolka]

I will!

WHEN I HAVE FINISHED SEEING ALL OF THE RSC HISTORIES (POSSIBLY TWICE).

[macmauve]

I went on a economy drive about a year ago (dailing miserably but that is another story). Anyway one of the non-necessities was my RSC associate membership which meant "bye bye" to priority bookings!
So when public booking opens on 1st Oct for the Histories, I shall be on the phone begging and hoping and promising all sorts of possibly unsavoury favours to the RSC box office for the 2 tetrologies in March! Aww come-on, it's my birthday pressie to myself (and who wants to go stratford in Feb and March anyway??? (apart from us lot of course!!))
Then I have to go back onto economy drive but a visit to US to see them again might just have be done.....?

[lite_bright]

I now feel very inept, because I posted the stupid things version of the article, and you have context, and meaningful criticism, and intelligent remarks. Plus, simplifying critical thought into little equations is a completely cool exercise.

[angevin2]

Simplifying critical thought into little equations makes the world go round, as does recasting it into the language of 1066 and All That. The Times' equation is "Richard II : Henry IV :: Tony Blair : Gordon Brown." Or something -- my eyes, they roll.